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An inspection of a workshop or workplace takes up much
time, as the different workrooms have to be measured up, a
plan drawn of the premises, and a large number of enquiries
made in connection with the filling up of the Register.
The Female Public Conveniences are under constant supervision
by the Female Inspector, 597 visits having been paid
thereto during 1904, whilst the Female Conveniences of Railway
Stations, Hospital Out-patient Departments, Shops, etc., also
come in for systematic supervision.
Miss Gamble has again during 1904 been engaged in visiting
all houses wherein deaths from infantile (summer) diarrhoea have
been reported as having occurred, with a view to helping to
further elucidate the predisposing causes of this disease; and in
inspecting schools, and the homes of the scholars, in connection
with outbreaks of disease (more especially measles).
It will be noted, in connection with the inspections and reinspections
of factories, workshops, and workplaces (where
women are employed), that the principle defects found are dirty
workrooms, dirty sanitary appliances, defective flushing tanks
to closets, defective closets, and defective dustbins. Overcrowding
was only found in 11 cases—in each instance being
slight.